Synchronizing Life

Your work computer. Your home laptop. Your mobile phone. Even your Mac. Devices live in multiple places. But the files you need—and the programs that open them—often don’t.  Live Mesh changes all that.  Today with Live Mesh you can synchronize files across many devices, access your files directly from the Web, easily share them with others and get notified whenever someone changes a file.  But Live Mesh is much more than an application.  As a platform it is a key foundational element of our services vision and holds the potential for developers world-wide to mesh applications and devices far beyond Microsoft’s own products.  Learn more about Live Mesh.

Ray Ozzie Introduction

Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect, Ray Ozzie, is leading the charge toward Software-plus-Services for the company with a compelling vision that combines the richness of software with the Web’s power to connect and the spontaneity afforded by mobile devices.   Hear him outline his new ethos of design in this excerpt from his MIX08 Keynote speech.  For a more in-depth view, watch his full MIX08 Keynote and his interview with Jon Udell, Microsoft Senior Technical Evangelist, on Channel 9.  Learn more about Ray Ozzie’s vision

Are You Connected?

Information and ideas—be them written, spoken or captured—move about the globe without borders thanks to the growth of rich software experiences and the pervasiveness of Web services.   With every step of progress, it has become easier to create, easier to share, easier to find, and easier to tailor ideas to your own fashion.  Ideas evolve and become viral when the means to share them are uncomplicated and connections are effortless.   Microsoft’s vision for Software-plus-Services is to power simple, seamless, integrated experiences that let people engage with their devices, and each other, according to their own individual passions.  This concept is at the heart of our next-generation services, operating system and applications.   And as we transform our own products, we are working to provide developers world-wide the means to do the same.  Learn more about Connected Experiences

Working Smarter

A services transformation across our industry has been catalyzed by confluence of factors.  It begins with cheap computing and cheap storage combined with the increasing ubiquity of high-bandwidth connectivity to the internet.   It is compounded by an explosion in PC innovation—from the high-end desktop, to the low-end net-top.  And it is extended by an explosion in device innovation, including media players, smart phones, and internet-connected devices of all forms and sizes.   When it’s put together seamlessly, the result for consumers and business is compelling.  Learn more about Microsoft architecture.